Budget 2025: The Underemployment Problem
Mr Chairman, Over this term of Parliament, I have constantly urged this Government to rebalance its manpower policy, because we have heard from many Singaporeans that they are facing great difficulties in finding good jobs and holding on to those jobs. It appears that underemployment is a real problem for Singaporeans, especially as they age […]
Budget 2025: We Do Not Want a First World Singapore Only For Elites
Mr Speaker Sir, Even before Budget 2025 was announced, many Singaporeans had expected that the Government would be generous in giving handouts to Singaporeans because this year is an election year. Indeed, about $3.8 billion of Special Transfers will be distributed this year, compared to about $3 billion in both 2023 and 2024. In recent […]
Family Motion: Reimagining Our Current Policies
Mr Speaker, Sir, Singapore’s TFR has been falling for many years. Last year, Elon Musk declared that Singapore is going extinct with our low birth rate. We do not need Elon Musk to point out that our low birth rate is a problem. During his first National Day Rally speech in 2004, then-Prime Minister Lee […]
Motion on Hawker Culture: Closing Speech
This speech was delivered on 13 November 2024. Mr Speaker, Sir, I would like to thank first of all, all the officeholders and Members who participated in this debate. I also thank the WP for supporting most of the points that PSP has raised. I am glad that based on the amended Motion put forward […]
Motion on Hawker Culture: Opening Speech
This speech was delivered on 13 November 2024. Mr Speaker, Sir, I beg to move, “That this House calls on the Government to review its policies relating to hawkers and the management of hawker centres to provide better support for hawkers to sustain and grow our Singapore’s hawker culture so that Singaporeans can continue to […]
Insurance (Amendment) Bill
Mr Deputy Speaker Sir, I will first declare my interest as an independent director of a life insurance company registered and operating in Singapore. As my colleague Ms Hazel Poa has said, PSP will support the Bill if it is necessary to block the Allianz-Income deal. For the sake of Singapore and the 1.7m policyholders […]
Insurance (Amendment) Bill: The Income-Allianz Deal
This speech was delivered on 16 October 2024. Mr Deputy Speaker Sir, I will first declare my interest as an independent director of a life insurance company registered and operating in Singapore. As my colleague Ms Hazel Poa has said, PSP will support the Bill if it is necessary to block the Allianz-Income deal. For […]
Adjournment Motion: Realising the Vision of a 45-Minute City in the West of Singapore under the Land Transport Master Plan 2040
Mr Speaker Sir, The massive breakdown on the East-West Line between Buona Vista and Jurong East MRT stations between 25 and 30 September reminded Singaporeans living in the West of Singapore, of how reliant they are on the East-West Line. This 6-day breakdown also happened to coincide with the PSLE exams and the announcement that […]
Adjournment Motion: The Vision of a 45-Minute City in the West
This speech was delivered on 15 October 2024. Mr Speaker Sir, The massive breakdown on the East-West Line between Buona Vista and Jurong East MRT stations between 25 and 30 September reminded Singaporeans living in the West of Singapore, of how reliant they are on the East-West Line. This 6-day breakdown also happened to coincide […]
Speech on the Platform Workers Bill
This speech was delivered on 15 October 2024. Mr Speaker Sir, The Progress Singapore Party welcomes the introduction of the Platform Workers Bill as an important first step in improving the welfare of platform workers. There are now more than 70,000 platform workers in Singapore, as of 2023[1]. This is a significant portion of our […]